Hickey.



G. W. PBQUTY.

; HICKEY. AljPucATlou FILED APR. 19. 1915. v

Patented Feb. 15,1916.

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Be it known that I, GARDNER W: PROUTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Littlcton, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts. have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hickeys, of which the following, is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the ccompanyin drawings.

My invention relates to hickeys such as are ordinarily employed in suspending lighting; fixtures such as chandeliers, elecand the like to connect the insulat- ,oint with the outlet pipe and to permit the passage of wires around the insulating joint.

lieretoiiore in the installation of lighting fixtures great difficulty has been experienced owing to the fact that it has been diiiicult to fish the ends of the wires through the side openingin the hickey, and this has com monly been done with a pointed hook or other shill, instrument which frequently results in serious injury to the insulation and introduces an additional source of danger. Various attempts have been made to obviate this diliiculty and to lessen the labor ofv installation, notably by the use of twopart hickeys, which are put together after the wires have been passed through the side openings, but such hickeys have proved to be unsatisfactory and unreliable.

My present invention has for its object a simple and inexpensive hickey, which will .requirc no more labor to install than the two part hiclzey, and will do away with the necessity for using a hook, and will eliminate the danger of injury t e the insulation of the wires. 7 K

'1 he hickev embodying my invention is no more expensive to manufacture than the ordinary two opening one-piece hiekey now commonly employed and which is subject to the objections heretofore mentioned.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description taken in 1 connection with the accompanying drawinns and the novel features thereof will be pointea out and clearly defined in the claims at the close of the specification.

I in the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation .a hickey embodying my invention. Fig". 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is asection on line 33 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a section on line H in Fig. 2.

Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed April 19, 1915.

yartented Feb. 15, 1916.

Serial 1%. 22,224.

In the drawings, at 11 and 12 are shown what may be conveniently termed the two" members which in ordinary practice are thev outlet pipe and the insulating joint, or the separated from each other by a single side opening; 16, the limits of which are defined by the edges of the connecting member or neck 13. The said connecting member or neck 13 is sprung or bulged outwardly so as to permit the side opening 16 to be carried well to the side of the center line, the object being tohave a single large opening; extending through from front to back of the liickey for the full width of the holes in the end of the hiekey. The extent of the opening will plainly be seen from Fig. 8 where the neck or connecting member is indicated by cross hatching. The side opening 16 is also extended beyond the end opening 1 1 and 15 in an arc-shaped area as indicated at formed by the bulge or curve f the neck. strength of the hickey as well as increases the size or? the opening. The hickey may be made very strong. The side opening 16 is so placed with relation to the end openings 1-1: and through one of which the wires pass and is of such a size that a workman has practically free access to the ends of the wires. This is shown inFig. 3 Where the point of a screw driver is shown as inoutlet pipe or stud and the fixture. The two end members Hand 12 of the hickey are This materially increases the i troduccd into the side opening to fish out I the wires. There is no danger of injury to the insulation of the wire under ordinary conditions of use.

The fishing out of the wire can be done almost instantly and without difficulty even in a dark place. It is not necessary to use a hook as has heretofore been used since any straight or substantially straight member can be used for the purpose, for instance a screw driver handle, the handle of a pair of pliers, a pencil or the like.

What I claim is z,

1. The improved hickey comprising two 

